<li>Provides sufficient detail to model 10 boats to scale or build them full size </li>
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<li>With measured drawings for 10 traditional boats, including the Light McKenzie River Boat and the Rogue River Driver This is the fascinating history of the river pioneers who designed, built, and used the early river dories and their successive incarnations. Author Roger Fletcher has collected stories, diaries, and photographs and recovered and recorded the lines and plans of these early boats before they were irretrievably lost. With marine artist Sam Manning's drawings, the book documents the traditional free-form method of drift-boat construction.
Whether you are a fly fisherman who appreciates the gentle lapping of water on wood or a boat builder who wants to recreate a piece of history, Drift Boats and River Dories is sure to satisfy.
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Drift Boats & River Dories: Their History, Design, Construction, and Use

Engineering & Transportation

Manning, Samuel F.

Fletcher, Roger L.

Transportation

Stackpole Books

This is the fascinating history of the river pioneers who designed, built, and used the early river dories and their successive incarnations. Author Roger Fletcher has collected stories, diaries, and photographs and recovered and recorded the lines and plans of these early boats before they were irretrievably lost. With marine artist Sam Manning's drawings, the book documents the traditional free-form method of drift-boat construction. Whether you are a fly fisherman who appreciates the gentle lapping of water on wood or a boat builder who wants to recreate a piece of history, Drift Boats and River Dories is sure to satisfy.

Traces the development of ships from prehistoric log rafts to the ships used by fifteenth century explorers, and shows each step in constructing a wooden ship

The Evolution of the Wooden Ship

GREENHILL, Basil

FACTS ON FILE+

Archaeology of the Boat: A New Introductory Study

Politics & Social Sciences

Manning, Sam

Archaeology

Wesleyan University Press

New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow, by Samuel F. Manning, is a small, softcover book that brings to focus the early settlement of coastal New England and the forgotten mast trade upon which the American lumbering and shipping enterprises were built. Timber was New England's best cash crop at the beginning of colonial settlement. But not just any timber. The kind of timber instantly saleable across the Atlantic were the tallest trees in the white pine forest for ships' masts. Mast timber then, like petroleum today, was protected and fought over by European belligerants to keep ships of war in fighting condition. It was worth any price. How post-Cromwell England commandeered the stands of New England mast pines and sought to harvest them under the repressive acts of the so-called Broad Arrow Policy is a fascinating story. 
But the heart of this book is its illustrations, which depict the actual surveying of mast trees, felling them by hand, moving the big sticks to tidal estuaries by means of oxen, hand-hewing the logs to the merchantable sixteen sides, and the loading of hewn mast baulks into ships. The story and drawings were compiled with the cooperation and approval of the British National Maritime Museum. Included are sixten log-handling scenes commissioned by the Maine Public Broadcasting Company for its documentary film Home to the Sea.

New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow

History

Europe

Tilbury House Pub

New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow, by Samuel F. Manning, is a small, softcover book that brings to focus the early settlement of coastal New England and the forgotten mast trade upon which the American lumbering and shipping enterprises were built. Timber was New England's best cash crop at the beginning of colonial settlement. But not just any timber. The kind of timber instantly saleable across the Atlantic were the tallest trees in the white pine forest for ships' masts. Mast timber then, like petroleum today, was protected and fought over by European belligerants to keep ships of war in fighting condition. It was worth any price. How post-Cromwell England commandeered the stands of New England mast pines and sought to harvest them under the repressive acts of the so-called Broad Arrow Policy is a fascinating story. But the heart of this book is its illustrations, which depict the actual surveying of mast trees, felling them by hand, moving the big sticks to tidal estuaries by means of oxen, hand-hewing the logs to the merchantable sixteen sides, and the loading of hewn mast baulks into ships. The story and drawings were compiled with the cooperation and approval of the British National Maritime Museum. Included are sixten log-handling scenes commissioned by the Maine Public Broadcasting Company for its documentary film Home to the Sea.

New England masts and the King's Broad Arrow

Distributed by Tilbury House]

The North American schooner "Bertha L. Downs" was one of many large four-, five- and six-masted schooners which were built on the banks of the Kennebeck River at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. These huge wooden vessels were almost universally employed in the coastal trade and the principal part of this was coal from Virginia to New England. She was launched in 1908 and, after some ten years in the lumber and coal trade, was sold to Danish owners and renamed "Atlas". Like a number of her contemporaries she was able to make a profitable living through the 1920s and 30s. She was finally broken up in Germany after 42 years of work under five flags. This is the first volume in the "Anatomy of the Ship" series to describe a large coastal trading vessel - a ship type which holds a particular romance for ship modellers and those interested in the last days of sail.

The Schooner Bertha L. Downs (Conway's History of the Ship)

Science & Math

Technology

Naval_Institute_Press

Author/illustrator Sam Manning has brought to life a period in history which makes this book valuable, but not simply because you will understand how the shipbuilding industry worked from the 1600s - 1800s. Manning shows what governments were doing, why, and how it directly parallels the twentieth- and twenty-first century policies of nations to spend blood and treasure to ensure they can control the supply of natural resources for their national security. With 1600s Europe unable to supply the big tall masts needed for their navies, Great Britain established a policy of marking trees in New England which were specifically the Crown's, to be cut, processed, and shipped back to England. Without proper masts, the navy could not carry sails to propel their ships--much like the need for oil today.

New England Masts: And the King's Broad Arrow

Americas

Wooden Boat Publications

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